Today's young people know "wormwood", all originated from eating wormwood made of green dumplings, in fact, the history of mainland mugwort can be traced back to the pre-Qin era, when there was a widely praised four-word poem - "Shijing Wang Feng Caige", which reads: "Pi Cai Ai Xi, not seen for a day, such as three years old Xi." ”
This means that the girl who picked Ai ai, who had not seen her for a day, was like three years. In the later life, this sentence evolved into a day of not seeing like three autumns apart, expressing the feeling of longing (we can also let go of our minds and think about it, maybe the poet wants to eat the green dough made of wormwood, and the hungry one is like the three autumns).
1. What does "Ai" look like?
Mugwort, known in some places as "Wormwood", "Mugwort", "White Artemisia", "Sweet Wormwood", etc., is a perennial herb with ovate-shaped serrated leaves and covered with fine gray-white fluff on the back, emitting a unique aroma that can be used to repel insects and detoxify.
2. How to eat "Ai"?
In the Period from Qingming to the Dragon Boat Festival, the mugwort leaves are the most tender, and can be picked in time to make wormwood green dough, mugwort dumplings, mugwort leaf glutinous rice dumplings, etc., until the mugwort leaves are fully mature, can be made into mugwort powder, is a good helper for dietary therapy!
3. Can "Ai" still be healthy?
In ancient times, there were methods of curing diseases using moxibustion and smoking. Nowadays, the application is more extensive, and some moxibustion and moxibustion stickers made of mugwort leaves are often seen in life.
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